PcDuino As Networked Device to Feed Data to Xively (Internet of Things)

Xively (formerly Cosm and before that Pachube (pronounced Patch bay)) is an on-line database service allowing developers to connect sensor-derived data (e.g. energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings) to the Web and to build their own applications based on that data. It was created in 2007 by architect Usman Haque. Following the nuclear accidents in Japan in 2011, Xively was used by volunteers to interlink Geiger counters across the country to monitor the fallout.

In this post, we will show how to network pcDuino to Xively and feed data to it.